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3 types of conformity
internalisation, identification and compliance
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2 explanations of conformity
NSI and ISI
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What is NSI
Normative social influence = agreeing as want to be accepted so not as long lasting
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What is ISI
Informational social influence = about who has better information so agree as believe is correct, this will be longer lasting
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Evaluate NSI and ISI
- research support - individual differences - both work together
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Name a study done on conformity
Asch - comparison of lines
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Asch variations
- Group size - task difficulty - unanimity
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Evaluate Asch study
- child of time - artificial - ethical - limited application (only men) - was done on strangers
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what was zimbardo's study about
to see if people conformed to their social roles
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Evaluate zimbardo
- well controlled (uniform) so good IV - Lack of realism - dispositional factors - ethical issues - lack of support
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name a study on obedience
Millgram
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What was millgrams study
ppts gave electric shock to learner in response to orders from a teacher
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Evaluate Millgrams study
-low internal validity (guess fake) - good external validity even though done in lab (nurse study)- supporting replication - ethical issues - alternative explanation SIT
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3 situational variables of obedience
-uniform - proximity - location
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what situation reduces obedience the least and most
baseline =65% least= location (un down office) most = experimenter member of the public
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Evaluate millgrams variations
- research support (field study on uniform) - lack internal validity (guessed fake) - cross culture replication - only one variable changed at a time - obedience alibi
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2 social psychological explanations of obedience
Agentic state, legitimacy of authority
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Outline Agentic state
feel no responsibility as acting for authority figure they can still feel anxiety
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Outline autonomous state
act on own principles so feels responsible for actions
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what are binding factors
allow to ignore damaging affect of behaviour
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Evaluate agent state
- research support (mr wallace responsible) - limited explanation (why some people don't obey)
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Outline legitimacy of authority
- more likely to obey people who we perceive to have authority over us, a consequence is people have power to push others
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what is destructive authority
where authority figure uses power for negative e.g, hitler
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Evaluation of legitimacy of authority
- cultural differences (explains obedience reflects different social hierarchies) - real life crimes
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name a dispositional explanation for obedience
-Authoritarian personality
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Outline Adorno et al study
P- 2000 middle class white americans asked questions to see unconscious attitudes towards racial groups and developed f scale o measure it F-people with AP identify with the 'strong' and have fixed mind sets
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what are 3 Authoritarian personality characteristics
-extreme respect for authority - very obedient to authority - no grey areas - have little respect of those the see inferior
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what are the origins of Authoritarian personality
- harsh parenting creates hostility and fear this is displaced onto others
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Evaluate dispositional explanations to obedience
- research support for millgram - limited explanation can't explain whole populations obeying - methodological problems (questions same) - correlation not causation
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2 explanations of resistance to social influence
-social support - LoC
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Outline Social support as an explanation to resisting SI
Conformity = reduced by presence of dissenter (when dissenter joins in ppt does to) Obedience = decrees in presence of disobedience peer
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Evaluate Social support as an explanation to resisting SI
C RS= conformity decreases when 1 person dissents even if not credible O RS=
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what is Loc
LoC= the sense we have about what direct events in our lives. Internal = believe they are in control External = other forces and luck
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who proposed LoC
Rotter
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Who are better at resisting social influence
people with a high internal LoC
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Evaluate LoC
- support from millgram study =repeated study meaning Loc and found 37% internal did not continue 23% external didn't so increases validity - contradictory research = people becoming more disobedient but external
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study on minority influence
moscovicci - blue green slides
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what are 3 factors that make minority influence more effective
commitment, consistency and flexibility
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what is the snow ball effect
people switching form majority to minority as more people do this more join in till becomes majority
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evaluate minority influence
-research support for consistency - artificial task - in real life more complicated - research support for internalisation (when wrote answer down) - research support for depth of thought (have longer effect)
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6 factors involved n social change
1) drawing attention 2) consistency 3) deeper processing 4) the augmentation principle (commiment) 5) snowball effect 6) social cryptomnesia
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lessons learnt form conformity research
NSI can lead to social change by drawing attention to what majority is doing
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lessons learnt form obedience research
importance of disobedient role models and gradual commitment is how obedience can lead change
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Evaluate social influence and social change
- NSI vald explanation e.g. reducing energy consumption - only indirectly effective - role of deeper processing
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